Marissa Nadler Announces Summer Headlining Tour

Marissa Nadler Announces Summer Headlining Tour

Photo Credit: Ebru Yildiz; Courtesy of Motormouth Media

West Coast Dates With Black Mountain Start Today

Strangers Is Out May 20th on Sacred Bones

"The richness of both the deep shadows and the bright bursts of light mirror Nadlers floating vocals cutting through the melancholy soundscapes, eliciting the beauty that is present in darkness once one is comfortable dwelling there." – Stereogum

"If anybody is capable of capturing and exploring the various shades of black and making them all beautiful, it might just be singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler." - Consequence of Sound

"Eerie and enchanting." - SPIN

She is so overdue for everybody to fall in love with her. – Bob Boilen, NPR All Songs Considered

Marissa Nadler has announced an extensive headlining tour of the US this summer following the release of Strangers May 20th on Sacred Bones. She will be performing with a full band. Nadlers previously announced West Coast dates with Black Mountain begin tonight in Bellingham, Washington, and she will be performing live on KEXP tomorrow at 4 pm Pacific. She will be playing a sold out album release show May 18th at Union Pool in Brooklyn.

Marissa Nadler also appears on the cover of The Wire this month, which is out now. More info HERE.

For more than 12 years, Marissa Nadler has perfected her own take on the exquisitely sculpted gothic American songform. On her seventh full-length, Strangers, out May 20th on Sacred Bones, she has shed any self-imposed restrictions her earlier albums adhered to, stepped through a looking glass, and created a truly monumental work.

In the two years since 2014s elegiac, autobiographical July, Nadler has reconciled the heartbreak so often a catalyst for her songwriting. Turning her writing to more universal themes, Nadler dives deep into a surreal, apocalyptic dreamscape. Her lyrics touch upon the loneliness and despair of the characters that inhabit them. These muses are primal, fractured, disillusioned, delicate, and alone. They are the unified voice of this record, the titular strangers.

Once again partnered with July producer Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, BlackMountain) Nadler has created a new album equal in sonic quality to the apocalyptic lyrical tone that covers its 44 minutes. In places her voice and guitar play off subsonic synths, while elsewhere, a pulsing drumbeat launches the song off into an intense, confrontational place.